Understand what they're saying - however they say it This completely innovative self-study book and audio CD set is the perfect way for busy executives to improve their English listening skills. It features real people talking about their work and their lives in a variety of native and non-native ac[...]
Previously entitled 'Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets,, this classic guide to the night sky enters its fourth edition as part of the authoritative 'Collins Guide, series. A comprehensive guide to all the stars and celestial objects visible with the use of binoculars or an average-sized telesco[...]
Do you understand textbook English recordings but struggle to understand what you hear in real English situations?[...]
A practical guide to improve the way you communicate in English - it's as much about how you say it as what you say![...]
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are inc[...]
What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outse[...]
A witty, personal and entertaining meditation on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance.[...]
In the vein of the hit television show "Battlestar Galactica" comes the fourth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling, science fiction series in which humankind is in a vast power struggle to bring down an evil empire.[...]
The fifth book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence...
The third book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence There is an unseen power in the universe-a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches the Sing[...]
A glorious epic fantasy in the grand tradition of CS Lewis and Philip Pullman. The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world, and on the adventure of your lifetime...Half of your soul is missing. The lost part is in the mirror. And unless Sylas Tate can save you, you will never be whole aga[...]
A glorious epic fantasy in the grand tradition of CS Lewis and Philip Pullman, and a major publishing event, The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world, and on the adventure of your lifetime...
Half of your soul is missing. The lost part is in the mirror. And unless Sylas Tat[...]
Learn the art of communication for international business
The Collins Cambridge IGCSE(R) English Teacher Guide provides all you need to teach the 2015 Cambridge First Language English syllabuses, 0500 and 0522, with expert support from experienced examiner and trainer Julia Burchell to help you lead your classes to success.[...]
Earlier naturalists formed the impression that bird numbers remained more or less stable through time. In the years since these words were written, however, changes have occurred in the landscapes of the British Isles and in the seas around our coasts, causing bird populations to fluctuate in an unp[...]
The second instalment of Ian Sansom's The County Guides series.
Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 1894. Little did he know that his inability to reverse a car would change the course of 20th Century History forever...[...]
"People faced with cancer take like seriously - very seriously. They want answers; they need to know what works. I know the feeling. For over twenty years now I have sat in groups with thousands of others going through cancer. Between us we have tried many things. We have worked out what works. My j[...]
General Motors and IBM have been battered to their cores. Jack Welch, the chairman of General Electric, called the frenzied competition of the 1980's "a white knuckle decade" and said the 1990s would be worse. In this pathbreaking book that will define this new age of "hypercompetition," Richard D'A[...]
As women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." Most guys know more about what's under the hood of a car than under the hood of a clitoris. But in the world of She Comes First, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved and the tongue is proven mightier than the sword. According to sex t[...]
The Definitive Introduction ToThe Relationship BetweenReligion And Science? In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur?? Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality?? Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God?s Way of Creating?? Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes?? God And N[...]
Religion and Science is a definitive contemporary discussion of the many issues surrounding our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our scientific age. This is a significantly expanded and feshly revised version of[...]
A first installment in a new series featuring Israel Armstrong finds the new Emerald Isle bookmobile attendant struggling to figure out who is responsible for the disappearance of the roving library's 15,000 books. By the author of The Impartial Recorder. Original. 40,000 first printing.[...]
Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing--along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of cours[...]
Time to learn all about what makes men turn on and stay on. In the spirit of 'full exposure' this is the closest you'll ever come to waking up in a guy's skin and knowing what truly makes him sexually tick. Sexual pleasure goes beyond tips and tactics, however. Our sexual identities and the expressi[...]